Practice question
After a diplomat’s functions end and the ordinary departure period has expired, a case concerns acts actually performed in exercise of mission functions. The receiving State argues that all immunity necessarily disappeared forever upon departure. What does Article 39(2) preserve?
- Permanent full immunity for every future private act
- Continuing immunity for acts performed in exercise of mission functions
- No immunity for any official act after departure
- Immunity only if the former agent returns as a tourist
- A personal right to rewrite the Convention
Legal references
- Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Articles 37-39: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf
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